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Unlike most conifers the Metasequoia has its leaves arranged on exactly opposite sides of the stalk instead of alternating. The cones are small like those of the hemlock or larch...
Tigers & Timber. The northern mountains, covered with snow from September to March, are rugged and heavily forested with spruce, larch, birch, juniper, maple and walnut. In the forests lurk leopards wild boars, wolves and tigers. Still a menace to the northern peasants, tigers were so much a part of Korean life 30 years ago as to justify the Chinese sneer: "The Korean hunts the tiger one half of the year and the tiger hunts the Korean the other half...
...fire, which the Nazis set before they moved out, the cathedral's heavy larch roof and its covering of multicolored tiles collapsed into the nave. Since then, Viennese have donated 15 million schillings (about $570,000) to restore the cathedral, but St. Stephen's still needs 250,000 tiles to complete its new roof; by last week the church had money enough for only 40,000. In a tiny hut in St. Stephen's Square, donors could buy one tile for five schillings (about 19? and Theodor Cardinal Innitzer pleaded with Viennese to help clothe their "oldest...
...died away along most of Alaska's great rivers; the Tanana, the Yukon, the Porcupine, the Kuskokwim foamed ice-free through the hundreds of miles of evergreen wilderness. Even north of "the Circle" the ground had thawed. Hundreds of thousands of obliging salmon ran in Alaska's larch-green coastal waters. The Arctic ice pack would soon move sullenly offshore. The sun stayed in the skies at night, and green things burst into leaf and blossom with hothouse frenzy. Alaska's short, violent summer had begun...
...work consists merely of folding gauze into pads of various sizes. Anyone can learn it in a morning. The two neighborhood workrooms are located at 23 Church Street and 22 Larch Road...